Adobe is hard at work on the follow-up to their line of CS4 products. Just recently, they released a sneak-peak video of some of the experiments they're working on. Needless to say, it's incredible! It's almost time to start filling the coin jar.
Though not specifically related to web development, the huge majority of us use Photoshop on a daily basis when designing - which makes this video more than applicable.
How Much Longer?
According to reports, the CS5 suite is expected to be released April 10, 2010.
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( ADD YOURS )Allen G October 15th
Crazy.
( )Sorin Istudor October 15th
Thanks for the update!
( )Dennis de Goede October 15th
Oh my god, if you thought they had put it all in in CS4, they still know to amaze us. I say good job Adobe.
( )kevinsturf October 15th
OMG Freaking amazing features, thanks a lot Adobe.
( )Sergiu Naslau October 15th
I’m kinda annoyed by how fast adobe upgrades there products, don;t get me wrong, but they could let the consumer get to have some fun with the older version (old vs cs4?!?!).
( )DataMouse October 16th
Adobe always work on an 18-month product cycle.
( )Just because they are showing a few new featurs does not mean that CS5 is ready for release.
Subaru October 16th
Budd, didn’t you hear? They’re most likely to release the darn thing next year April. Jerks! Leaving out features on purpose so they can cash in on our wallets.
Nori Silverrage October 19th
Yeah me too. I bought CS3.3 and then they went and released CS4 a few months later. So that pissed me off.
( )Anyway, the 18month release cycle is too fast. They really don’t change too much in that time. I’d prefer a two or three year cycle where each release is more groundbreaking instead of one or two new tools each release. I mean they don’t even do much for updates on their products. CS3 when it was first released is the same as it is now, they have a couple of small bug fix patched but thats about it. Lets see a little more love for “old” versions.
Gil October 26th
It’s a double-edged sword Nori. I like a company that continues to improve their products, but wallet continues to say Ouch! (if it could). The one thing I’ve fallen victim to is I bought the CS3 Master Collection about six months before CS4 came out. Had I known this Adobe pattern for releases, I would have waited for CS4. What it did for me was cause problems taking classes at my college. I bought CS3 with the intent of taking about six classes. But the college went with the flow and changed their books and software the very next semester. So I’ve only taken two Photoshop classes and an Acrobat class.
The alternative is waiting on a company to put out a “good” updated product. It took Microsoft eight years to do that. I’m not bashing Microsoft – merely pointing out the obvious.
Me? I’m waiting for Windows 7 with SP1 to be around and then either wait or install CS5. It’s about time I reformatted my hard drive anyway – it’ll be more than two years when CS5 may come out next April.
Good luck!
Randy Cram October 15th
I love it, looks amazing!
( )Timmy Christensen October 15th
Those are some cool features. They’re not exactly going to help me design web pages faster but they’re cool none the less.
( )Constantin Potorac October 15th
OH MY GOD… I did not even had the time to experiment CS4 and they are already getting CS5 out… Oh…. and I was thinking of starting to learn some other programs… yeah in my dreams
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( )Gavin October 16th
I know! I hope its like the Snowleopard update and very cheap! but I doubt it very much
( )Alex Beltechi October 25th
Gosh, I’m still using CS3. I guess that makes me a dinosaur by Adobe’s standards, but I’m not missing out on any CS4 features that I can’t do in CS3. This stuff however really looks tempting.
( )sam October 15th
Nice. I believe a tool should not hinder a person’s creativity and Adobe are really pushing that..
( )cssah October 15th
Really amazing tools,Thx .
( )Michele October 15th
*eyes glaze over*
( )Amazing. @__@
Jonathan Yarbor October 15th
Pretty cool, funny announcer voice sounds like an Knock-out Arena voice.
Is it just me or is Adobe just adding a few new features and relaunching a new version, charging hundreds in the process?
I realize that performance and a few other variables are in play that you don’t see in a program, but still. When it is that expensive…
( )Bretticus October 15th
I was thinking the same thing. This guy is a little over-dramatic.
( )Matt Hill October 16th
It’s Russell Brown! Famous PhotoShop guru and Senior Creative Director at Adobe. He’s the main man who for years has been bridging the gap between the users and PhotoShop developers and he does all PhotoShop’s preview videos. He’s famous for his “wacky” persona.
You don’t dis the Brown.
w1sh October 15th
Thank God Adobe is finally coming out with “technology to enhance my performance”. And here I thought they were taking it away. Hey girls!
( )UK Site Builder October 15th
Ahh I was wandering when they were going to incorporate the puppet tool from After Effects in PhotoShop
Nice one!
( )Connor Crosby October 15th
WOW, that warping tool is very cool!
( )Devin October 15th
This looks really nice. I personally can’t wait to see what else they come up with.
( )Nori Silverrage October 19th
For CS5 I’m guessing this will be the extent of the new stuff. They don’t generally release a lot of new tools, usually just two or threeish and then some interface and backend changes.
( )Viggo October 15th
I wish I could get excited about Corel painter functionality and the puppet tool that’s been in After Effects since CS3.
Adobe had best work up something new and significant .
( )BroOf October 15th
It looks so amazing! I hope there will be also web additions
( )Eric B. October 15th
Haha! At first, I thought that the title said “Photoshop CSS”. That would be very interesting if Photoshop generated your CSS for you!
( )Nio October 16th
hehe I don’t want crappy generated CSS…
( )Stefan Frank October 16th
Oh there it is this software called sitegrinder that makes css from your PS works if you describe it how to use the layer. It didnt make sense for real pictures. (Yeah – you already know this
) But to use PS as a WYSIWYG Editor is kinda cool! It is good to give first impressions to your customers. And you can work on this css-rich html base to bring it into your cms real easy (You already know this too 
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Tanish October 15th
Excellent as usual. Nothing can beat the Photoshop (yet).
I use both Gimp AND Photoshop these days.
I do wish Photoshop goes Opensource
( )Nykeri Grant October 16th
hahaha LOLZ rofl lmao nice one
( )Tyler October 19th
gimp is lame
( )Louf Hawkner October 15th
I thought the Adobe team were hard at work threatening businesses with trademark notices years after they became aware of their existence, which is technically illegal
( )Nori Silverrage October 19th
Thats just the copyright infringement division which has 1000 employees. The developer division spends all their time developing with their 10 employees.
( )Puja Puri October 15th
The voice-over was quite annoying with constant repetition of ‘this technology’… Tools look promising though…
( )sacarias October 15th
it really would be nice to get program patches instead of having to purchase the whole new thing.
( )Belinda October 15th
Totally agree!
( )Nykeri Grant October 16th
yup especially if the changes are only minor
( )Ben October 15th
Awesome! I love the new warping stuff. And for the painting.. i wish i’d have a graphic tablet.
( )Nokadota October 15th
The guy speaking was so unbelievably corny but the new technology seems neat.
( )paul October 15th
kinda impressed, but not really…that joker presenting spoiled it….
( )Dan Philibin October 15th
New features are always welcome but I’m not spending another dime on an Adobe product until they really focus on the Mac version. Face it, what’s hurting Photoshop more: its lack of features, or its terrible performance and UI?
( )Nori Silverrage October 19th
Terrible performance… I have a 2.5GB 3Ghz Dual Core processor and two dedicated hard drives and its still sluggish. Sure its not a super computer, but do I really need 8GBs of ram and a quad core processor with 10k drives? Until recently Photoshop didn’t even support 64bit OS so it couldn’t address more than 4GBs anyway.
( )Alan Monroig October 15th
Great, I can´t wait any more!!
( )Brian Temecula October 15th
I’ve been a photoshop user for a number of years, and while Adobe does continue to impress us with new features, I’m not sure this is worth the price of the upgrade. Realistically, how many times are you going to need to warp something as shown in the video? And the paint brushes… I’d never use them. My only reason to upgrade might be if I got a new O/S and my CS2 didn’t work anymore.
( )Batfan October 16th
I totally agree. Their pricing structure is way out of hand.
( )arnold October 15th
CS5 is looking great!,
( )how old is CS4? lol
MOTORIST November 20th
Hi all! Great, I can´t wait any more!!
( )Ronnie Garcia October 15th
The new technology looks great. I’d especially like to try out the new brush tools with my Cintiq. It would be nice to see the cursor shape and size change on the fly based on what is actually being painted. Also, I hope they focus more on fixing the performance so it’s more like CS3. CS4 was a step backward in my opinion and I have nothing but problems with it.
( )DaveK October 15th
Wow, cs4 has only been out 5 minutes, so is adobe expecting us to fork out hundreds of £/$ in upgrades or new software every year then???? if yes, then they need to review their pricing policy.
to be honest I would not mind paying a bit extra to get a new feature as addons/patches etc to an existing version, that way I could pick and choose whats useful to my workflow, but dishing out for a completely new piece of software for a handful of new features, is just smacking of profiteering by Adobe.
( )Nori Silverrage October 19th
Yep
( )Tanja October 16th
Argh! Damn you Adobe and your awesome software… I’m also kinda annoyed at how fast they’re developing the new versions. You get the feeling that you shouldn’t buy the new versions, because the next ones will be out a month after -.-
( )But hey, if it’s this great, why complain?
Derek Anderson October 16th
“Don’t try to be original. Just try to be good” – Paul Rand… and Adobe products are neither. — As already mentioned, the puppet tool from After effects since CS2… and as far as a realistic painting tool, check out ‘Art Rage’ http://www.artrage.com , they’ve been doing this since 2004…
( )schmaklab October 23rd
Yeah, I’m not all that impressed either.
( )Vishu October 16th
WOW!…these glimpses sure look promising, i hope there’s something related to aiding the web design as well in the upcoming CS5 suite…
( )Nio October 16th
Sorry but I disagree…
All these “new” stuff are making the Adobe Products just for everyone. Like chinese products, but with greater price.
The people will say, “wow it is so easy to make such things, why you want such price for something soooo easy?”
Just Adobe guys with their wish to make all the things so “technology advanced” are starting to create mediocre products.
I will stay with CS4. It is enough.
If you are designer, you will make it even with MS Paint.
( )Stoian Kirov October 16th
Unbelievable !!!
( )I can’t wait… :>
squareart October 16th
Wow Cool!
( )I think the patches update idea is a good one, hint hint: )
Anggi@icreativelabs October 16th
OMG! insane! PS5 very awesome
( )Mkk October 16th
cool
( )Stephen Ainsworth October 16th
Will the bugs from cs3 and cs4 be passed over to cs5 again?
( )Aqib Mushtaq October 16th
looks amazing, can’t wait!
( )Goodies October 16th
WOW.
the painting and Warping stuff looks like some crazy stuff.
its just AMAZING
i can only hope they put that Warping Technology into flash.
( )Gerard Cahill October 16th
Cool stuff but god where do they get these narrators? Feels like i’m at Disneyland. Also The word “technology” has lost all meaning.
( )MrSuitUp October 16th
That amazed!
( )Especially the warping feature, I have ideas of putting that to use… =))
Hieronymus_N October 16th
Will it run in 64-bit on my Mac under Snow Leopard and not crash all the time like CS3. That’s all I care about. Paint shmaint.
( )Nori Silverrage October 19th
Who knows, you can be sure that they won’t release any updates for it.
( )Marshall October 16th
These releases remind me of touring bands. They’ll release an album roughly 12-18 months at a time so they can supplement the expenses.
I could see Adobe coming out with the CS4.5 EP to support their next full length.
( )Philo October 16th
Looks Awesome!
( )Jermaine Young October 16th
Warping is very cool.
( )Tim October 16th
What tosh! I’m not made of money. Can’t see me upgrading for a few new features.
Anyway, I only upgrade when I visit the US due to the price variations around the world. Why should it be more expensive if I download it using a UK credit card? Is that a con or what?
( )Nio October 17th
Mmm, can you do this, is the licence’s valid if you buy it in USA and use it in Italy?
( )Chris Pierre October 16th
Looks Pretty Nice
( )Scotty October 16th
i’m sticking with CS3
i have an older machine with a fairly powerful video card, and i can’t run CS4’s 3D features, so CS5 is out of the question.
i agree with the comment about “…you can make it with MS Paint”
( )i’m running CS3 and i’m still awesome.
Nykeri Grant October 16th
so tru saw and tried cs4 it nice but to buy it for an interface change and some upgrades i’ll pass for now
( )Leo Utskot October 16th
Am I the only one who so really anoyed by the voice of this guy? I had to start skiping after listening to his nasal-nerd monolog for 30 secs.
( )JJ Spelman October 16th
Outstanding warping capabilities if they remain of the editing room floor!
The brush thing is OK – but I sometimes wonder why folks wish to take a photo and make it look hand painted. Art imitating life? Whatever…
( )WebHostDesignPost October 16th
Wow another Photoshop. It seems like CS4 just came out.
( )Edgar Andres Zorrilla October 16th
insanity!!!
( )Stefan Frank October 16th
It is nothing really new to put a painting technology in it… BUT: It is wonderfull to use only one program and not switching from the slow Corel painter to PS and backwards.
There isnt any bad about the CS5 release. You dont have to buy it. But some people will welcome the new features.
I will buy it and you know what? I`m one of this person that would say: Dude this is awesome and easy. Then i will look on the price and will say: WOW!!! These are 10 products in one and if i would buy them instead of PS i would spend much more money on them.
I use PS as a texturizer for 3D Models, Photography, Matte Painting, scrabbles, web design, postworks etc. i can really use this 10 programs strong thing called Photoshop
I`ve got CS2 and it was worth it. And this version would it be also…
I`m a designer and if i would use MSPaint – my customers would kick my bu** for the delayed outcome. But of course – why should i use a car if i could use a curricle
It would be cheaper, better for the nature and i dont want to mention how individuell i would be.
It is decided! I will crash my equipment and use a greenscreen monitor with DOS. I`m a designer – so i dont have to use this fancy modern things
Just me, my room-sized computer and my dot-matrix printer on my 56k modem. Hell yeah!
( )SleepY October 17th
Just amazing….i can’t wait to use is
( )SleepY October 17th
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( )Gerasimos October 17th
Great stuff but what about the web design world? yes it’s a photo editing software but they could push the envelope a bit for web professionals as well.
( )Mukarram October 17th
Great….lots of interested features they are going to incorporate !
Waiting for !!!
( )wdct October 17th
As Adobe did in previous years, this is only a part of the new features in the next version of Photoshop. But as far as this video goes, I can see the direction the new features that will be added, and that’s a more artistic direction than in previous years.
( )Matt Wood October 17th
Is anyone curious how neither this video, it’s author’s Youtube profile, nor the website where it was published are actually connected with Adobe Systems? This is not the first video claiming CS5 features, nor the first created by fans that claim to be the next version of CS5.
From the “cs5.org” site where this was published:
“Blog devoted to the Adobe CS5 (Adobe Creative Suite 5). Provides a summary of the Adobe CS5 – related prerelease and experimental technologies
Contact us: adobe2011(at)gmail.com”
Jeffrey, you state that “they released a sneak-peak video” but in fact, Adobe is in no way connected with this video, nor the others that have popped up claiming to expose new features of the future release. In order to maintain credibility at Nettuts+ I believe a small disclaimer is needed in the situation. Otherwise, your site simply falls into the category of other “hype-based” rumor sites, like those seen in the Apple community.
Thoughts anyone?
( )Stefan Frank October 20th
The voice of the speaker is pretty well known in the adobe universe. I doubt it could be a fake spoiler.
( )Meshach October 17th
Looks very nice!
( )Sean O October 17th
Erm, you mean Sneak *Peek*?
( )Banhawi October 17th
Really Awesome
( )Robin October 17th
Wow, CS5 already. I was about to get the CS4 suite soon but now I’m just going to stick with CS3. No use wasting money when the exchange rate in my country is $1US = $7TT. I already feel like crap after investing in Cinema 4d v11 in July and they release 11.5 in September.
( )Thanks for the update though.
Migatto October 18th
Amazing… Unreal!
( )Prionkor October 18th
I appreciate the new experiments and the have come up with really cool results. But i really think they should take their time to release new versions. least two year or more or decrease the prices.
Extreamly cool outcome though
the new brush technique will help real life painters to switch to photoahop.
I always thought some features of After effects should included in photoshop. I think we got one here
Nice worp tool.
I think i have to increase my ram before have it. I always like how adobe come up with whole new ideas. Thanks for sharing.
( )Martijn397 October 18th
Looks great!
If you guys come across any Fireworks CS5 “Lab” video’s please post them!
I’ve recently been converting myself to Fireworks CS4 for all my professional webdesign jobs and havent looked back at Photoshop since.
I can kinda see a trend evolving towards Fireworks at the design firm i work for since it really speeds things up. If any of the professionals here havent tried it yet, i really recommend it!
( )S-tyle October 18th
Adobe, always amazing us.. wow
( )Dave October 18th
wow looks impressive. cant wait ’til its out and we can start using this stuff on design projects
( )samuel October 18th
i don’t like those brushes improvements, photoshop is for image editing not for painting. Painter has all those improvements right now, so thats not a new technology like they say. They must concentrate in what the program does (image editing) and don’t try to emulate another specialized programs that are far away in their capabilities just to gain some money with new version of the same shit. Like the inclusion of “3D”, lol thats crap, for 3d i use 3d max.
Just think about it, why they don’t try to include crappy things like “advanced” vector manipulation. Because they own a program that does exactly that (illustrator) and they know illustrator is much better doing what it was made for.
And yes that new stuff on image editing is amazing and useful. But they need to do like 10 more improvements like that to release a new version.
( )Carl - Web Courses Bangkok October 18th
Speaking from a training provider, it is hard to keep up with the names, not the technology as that does not change too much. But if we say we are teaching CS4 and everyone knows CS5 is out, we then look dated. This puts pressure on us to update for almost no reason than to say 5 instead of 4.
Tough call.
( )Emin October 18th
here is a link with more material about Photoshop and Flash CS5, including previews of:
Photoshop:
- Bone Tool
- Content-Aware Scaling or some sort of coooooool trick
- Shuffling
Flash:
( )- Physics
- iPhone/iPod touch compatible…
Emin October 18th
I forgot the link:
( )http://www.cs5.org
dextech October 18th
woww…. it loooks coool
( )Arron Dvies October 18th
I think you need a better picture, or maybe the guy who marks the football field needs more experience. this helps alot
( )John October 18th
Cool, but the updated brush engine probably still won’t come close to Corel Painter.
I’d like to see some simple additions that would make website mockups easier… like being able to change the radius of a rectangle. Or being able to add a line to separate sides of a rectangle, just like you can in CSS.
Sure, Adobe has Fireworks, and it has some awesome features for web mockups. But it still lacks in so many ways, that i always come back to Photoshop.
( )des- October 19th
can’t wait to have new photoshop ^^
( )sanka October 19th
Think ill stick to my CS4 Master Collection for now
( )Simone Scarduzio October 19th
How many times does he say “TECHNOLOGY”? He’s like Steve Jobs and his “INCREDIBLE”.
“Incredibly” irritating.
Btw, CS5 seems very nice.
( )tom October 19th
wow how long has corel had this before adobe thought they needed it
( )Fird October 19th
This seems insane. I’m worried that in the later days, there wouldn’t be any ‘real’ images anymore
( )Matt October 20th
Another “cash grab” by Adobe by offering some new features that look cool but in reality will make no difference to your working day. What about fixing all the errors in the current version of the software instead of slugging us for another release?
( )Raymond October 20th
Stupid. All I care about is Adobe fixing bugs and making the Mac versions work correctly. Make it 64 bit. Ditch the ancient legacy code. Don’t really care about smearing paint.
( )schmacklab October 23rd
AGREED.
( )Jared October 22nd
When will the version of Photoshop that does all the work for you come out lol.
Thanks for the updates!
( )tol1k October 22nd
New Photoshop – new possibilities
( )Greg October 22nd
“CS5″ looks too much like “CSS” in some fonts.
Just sayin.
( )adam October 23rd
artrage was doing for many years. this is sooo late..
( )Russ October 28th
With everything Adobe puts out, they leave something broken that I used to use. It’s unfortunate that I rely on their products so much. I hate the arrogant company they have become.
( )Ilyas November 3rd
That is now a cool thing to get.
( )FRKT November 9th
I swear if he says “technology” one more time I’ma hurt myself.
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